A night with Ike…

That was one wicked wind storm last night.  It sounded like Marine One was landing on our front yard, repeatedly, for several hours.  The power kept flickering.  Branches fell out of trees and blocked the roads.  I found a rather large tree branch on the hood of our car this morning.  No damage, thank G_d, [...]

One red tomato…

I have an update on the upside down tomato experiment. 
On the Grape Roma plant we have five tomatoes, one of them is now red enough to pick.  On the Beef Stake plant, there is one lonely tomato and it is tiny and green. 
My next door neighbor went the traditional route with his tomato plants.  It [...]

Upside down tomatoes…

It is all the rage this year…  There are infomercials selling kits for upside down tomatoes and ads in all of the gardening magazines for kits and blog posts on making your own kits.  I’m not usually one to fall for fads but this one intrigued me.  I have a difficult time with tomatoes because [...]

Around the garden…

We took a lot of pictures this weekend, mostly of the garden and the various things we are growing.
This is my favorite, the pink coneflower…

And our little bush roses are doing really well after a bit of a rough start…

The sage in my herb garden has had some wicked growth.  We’re going to put some [...]

Blueberry update…

The blueberries are ripe and ready…

Last year the three blueberries that grew and ripened were eaten by animals.  This year we picked them and ate them.  I think we ended up with 10 berries this time around.  Someday I hope to get a bowl full of berries from this bush.

Our front garden…

This is not at all what I intended.  When I removed the old shrubbery and put in new arborvitae bushes, I intended to mulch around them and watch them grow.

But S had other ideas.  She emptied an entire box of mixed seeds in the dirt around the arborvitae.

The arborvitae are still in there and I [...]

Watching the grass grow, day 40…

Previously posted: Watching the grass grow, day 13…
Okay, so I didn’t give weekly or even bi-weekly updates on the Scott’s PatchMaster grass seed.  But it has done fairly well.
Here is a picture of the previously bald spots from today, day 40.

The previously bald spot that was behind the lawn chair filled in better than I [...]

Blueberry update…

They are starting to turn blue…

 

Mike’s garden…

From where I sit while I type this, I have a good view out of two windows.  When I put the desk in the office I set it away from a wall, in the corner, allowing me to watch out over the back yard from one window and to look out of my neighbor’s garden [...]

Watching the garden grow…

Oh yes, it is time again for a garden update. 
The Yarrow is growing like mad and is starting to turn yellow.

And yes, this is where blueberries come from…

And we have some daisies in bloom.  These are the recently purchased daisies.  The ones that I planted last year aren’t even close yet.

The arborvitae that I planted [...]